PL manifold (piecewise-linear) that is not DIFF nor triangulable: uniquely triangulated or not?

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We know that a classification of manifolds include:

  • (TOP) topological manifolds

  • (PDIFF), for piecewise differentiable

  • (PL) piecewise-linear manifolds

  • (DIFF) the smooth manifolds

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2863039/on-manifolds-top-pdiff-diff-pl

I know that

1) Diff (Differentiable) manifold = smooth manifold

2) Diff manifold is always a triangulable manifold?

question 1: Is Diff manifold always uniquely triangulated? What do we mean by uniquely triangulated?

3) PL manifold = Diff manifold up to 6 dimensions.

4) PL manifold in 7 dimensions may be smoothed=differentiable, but not uniquely.

question 2: Is PL manifold in 7 dimensions still triangulable? (although some triangulation may not be unique?)

question 3: Thus PL manifold may not be triangulable, in which dimensions (such as 7 or 8 dimensions, and/or above)?